[Clipart] clipart Digest, Vol 47, Issue 12

[John Olsen]

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> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 21:10:17 -0800 (PST)
> From: rygle <pittos at post.com>
> Subject: Re: [Clipart] No pictures?
> To: clipart at lists.freedesktop.org
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> Teodor-Toma Silvestru Muntean wrote:
>>
>> Clipart must be SVG (vector art) not embeded or linked bitmap (the  
>> red
>> cross is a linked bitmap object - it can't be show because the  
>> bitmap file
>> can not be find by the source-line, if you make the bitmap EMBEDED  
>> the
>> pictures will display, but ISN'T valid clipart, AGAIN the files  
>> must be
>> VECTOR).
>>
>
> I think you'll find the problem is that Inkscape just doesn't embed  
> the
> bitmaps by default. Embedding bitmaps is not ideal because it makes  
> a large
> file, however it is possible.
>
> I added a section to the Inkscape FAQ just recently to explain this,  
> and to
> offer some solutions. See
> http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ#Images_in_my_document_disappear_and_I_get_.22Linked_Image_Not_Found.22 
> .
> here
>
> Anyway, OCAL does have trouble uploading files over 500Kb, or so I  
> believe.
> That would probably make it hard to upload files that were too big,
> including images with embedded bitmaps.
> -- 


All well and good, but it is against our policy to accept svg files  
with embedded bitmap images.  We'll mark them for cleanup.  I believe  
that file size is not what causes a file to fail on upload.  it is  
file complexity.  The upload script times out on overly complex files.


John Olsen